Cricket Australia (CA) said descendants of deceased Australian test players would be offered a commemorative certificate to honour their role in helping make cricket part of the Australian way of life.
CA chairman Bob Merriman added that the crest on the trademark baggy green cap could be used on the gravestones of its deceased players.
"We held a major reunion of men's Test players in mid-2003, presenting each with a mini baggy green cap and an inscription of their personal Australian test player number," Merriman said in a statement.
"We are now offering the descendants of the 192 deceased Australian male test players who represented Australia prior to the 2003 reunion group, and the descendants of our deceased female players, with special certificates --
Friday marked 100 years since the first meeting of the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket Matches, an organisation which was to become the Australian Cricket Board in 1973, then Cricket Australia in 2003.
The board was formed after the Australasian Cricket Council, which had a short and often tumultuous history organising international cricket matches from 1892, wound up in 1900, close to bankruptcy and split by inter-colonial tensions.
Prior to 1892, international games were organised by individual colonies.
A 100-year birthday party was taking place later on Friday in Melbourne, near the location of the inaugural meeting held on May 6, 1905.
